You lucky motherfucker. I spent over $500 in textbooks this year. That's the last time I buy new. Then again, all of my books were recently released this year, so they had to be new.

My professor also suggested that it may become part of the tuition. Great, more expensive college fees for universities across the board. Grr.

I never bought books with CDs because they were usually crap - so no, I don't use them :p It was ridiculous anyway - a whole CD for 4Mb of files.

Why restrict to ipads? Why not have it in a generic open source e-book format that all electronic devices can read. That way you can use any device you want. As far as books being cheaper, if games has shown us anything is that prices stay high.
I had a teacher that didn't tell us that we needed the CD for the book so most people who bought it used were screwed unless someone ether made copies or loaned it to someone. I think I managed to convince the teacher that most of the class didn't have the CD's so she got a bunch of them for everyone.
I had one particular teacher that would assign 5 books for a class but only use two of them for the course. Optional reading that we were never told that was optional.
School bookstores are a ripoff so never buy for them despite the guilt trips that they may try.